Alessandro (Alex) Meregaglia is an associate professor, archivist, and librarian and has been on the faculty at Boise State University since 2016. He holds degrees from Hillsdale College (BA in American Studies) and Indiana University (Master of Library and Science and MA in History), where he specialized in archives and records management as well as focusing on twentieth-century American history. He teaches library and archival research methods to undergraduate and graduate students and coordinates K-12 school visits to Boise State’s library for National History Day research. Within Special Collections and Archives, he organizes and preserves archival collections, oversees digitization projects, and manages the work of student employees and research assistants.

His primary research project examines the history of Caxton Printers, a small yet prolific Idaho publishing company known for their fierce defense of freedom of expression and for being one of the most prominent publishers of conservative and libertarian books in the twentieth century. For this project, he has traveled across the United States conducting archival research, including at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. He has received over $60,000 in grants and regularly gives presentations to a variety of audiences discussing his findings.

Meregaglia has also worked as an archival consultant for the Russell Kirk Center and the Philadelphia Society.